Bearings

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Stated First Edition. Octavo quarter bound in blue with tan boards; dust jacket; 85pp; 21 cm About Very Good(-) in Good(-) dust jacket; light toning to edges of boards, pages clean, deckle edge to textblock, binding tight; jacket show light sunning and soiling; ample dampstaining to back of jacket. Hardcover.

"In Marshall's poetry, violent and frequently inchoate feeling reigns supreme. Image tumbles over image in an escalating rhetoric of strong emotions. At his best, Marshall with seeming effortlessness projects a crackling charge of irrational energy. But Marshall is pretty rarely at his best--too often he degenerates into a sort of artifical rant that deadens rather than stirs" --Publisher